Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Consensus, Majority Vote, "Blocks" [was Report on Survey of Cohousing Communities 2011. Just released. A must read!

[Moz (list]

ok, the big list of synonyms:

>>willingness to compromise
> Convergence
> harmonization.
> reciprocity.
> reconciliation.
> accommodation
> pleasing

I agree that compromise has become tainted, and that pedants like me
will just have to give up on it. Hopefully we can converge on a
harmonious term, yeilding in reciprocal fashion until we reconcile
to a new accommodation that's pleasing to all.


>>>> Compromise can produce a result that doesn't make anyone happy.

Then it's a poor compromise. My feeling is that it doesn't matter what
we call a bad outcome, it's the underlying bad outcome that matters.

One attraction to "compromise" is that it's clear from the term that
everyone involved is giving something to the common good. Too often
consensus is seen by novices as meaning that everyone gets what they
want, especially them. So perhaps different terms are more attractive
to people with different levels of experience of consensus processes?

Moz